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Thread #117783   Message #2541196
Posted By: artbrooks
17-Jan-09 - 08:14 AM
Thread Name: BS: Let them all go!
Subject: RE: BS: Let them all go!
BB says "...when I supply facts and sources..." IMHO, an extract from a newspaper article may be a source, but it is generally just that source's interpretation of facts supplied to it. The actual "fact" appears to be that a certain percentage of former inmates (approximately 11%) of the Guantanamo confinement facility have been identified as known or suspected to be, or to have been since their release, involved in some kind of (unspecified) terrorist activity. The confirmed rate is closer to 3%. Well, first, a 3% recidivism rate is, I think, better than that of violent criminals released from US prisons. Secondly, the definition of 'terroristic activity" can be, and has, been expanded to include such things as providing Cousin Abdul, an Al Quaida member, with a meal. Thirdly, most of those already released were let go because here was no proof that they did anything to justify being locked up in the first place, so the "return to terrorism" in the original headline is inaccurate to begin with.